This study compares simultaneously interpreted German speech to non-interpreted German discourse in order to determine whether interpreted language is characterised by any of the laws that have been found to feature in ...

The relationship between phonological skills and reading has not been studied extensively in the African languages spoken in South Africa. This study focuses on phonological skills and reading in emergent bilingual Northern ...

The lack of terminology in Zulu can be overcome if it is developed to meet international scientific and technical demands. This lack of terminology can be traced back to the absence of proper language policy implementation ...

This thesis examines the way in which purpose and identity are realised in the written case
reports of radiography students in comparison with those of professional writers. Students
entering a new discourse community ...

Focuses on Grade 1 reading skills in Northern Sotho at a high poverty school where a reading intervention project was implemented over a four-year period, aims at building a culture of reading at the school by creating ...

This article describes and appraises a reading comprehension programme !hat was aimed at Grade
6 learners and reachers and implemented in different 11'0) in {11'0 high poverty prim(Jiy schools
where reading ...

I report on teacher change in the context of a reading strategy instruction intervention.
Reading Strategy Instruction (RSI) was implemented by three teachers, new
to the concept, over a period of 15 weeks. Observations ...

The aim of this article is to trace how Aesop's fables impacted on the development of Xhosa children's literature
from the 1920s. The questions which come to mind about Aesop's fables are: How were Aesop's fables
incorporated ...

While translation can be studied with a view to throwing light on a number of aspects in life, in this thesis translation has been researched with a view to outlining the development of written Zulu from its earliest stages, ...

Signed language interpreting in South Africa has not received much academic attention, despite the profession having undergone major transformation since the advent of democracy. This study aims to create a better understanding ...

Abstract: As the title suggests, this article highlights some of the translation strategies used by
Archibald Campbell Jordan to transfer ideas and aspects of culture from isiXhosa into English in
Ingqumbo Yeminyanya. ...

This study examines how travelogues by the Russian author Anton Chekhov, an American, George Kennan and a British citizen, Harry de Windt, contributed towards establishing the image of Siberia towards the end of the 19th ...

This research investigates how the speech community living in Maputo city uses language in relation to HIV/AIDS and studies related stigmas which impede women's access to HIV/AIDS counselling services. My hypothesis is ...

The purpose of this study was to investigate the attitudes of learners at English-medium schools towards teachers whose home language was Afrikaans and who taught through the medium of English. A secondary objective was ...

This thesis is focused on a study of translation strategies in Guillaume Oyono Mbia's plays. By using the sociological, formalistic and semiotic approaches to literary criticism to inform the analysis of the source texts ...

Investigates the taboos attached to the translation of biological science terms into Northern Sotho, a language whose scientific register is not as developed as that of English. Argues that it is expected of the translator ...

On the assumption that the translation strategies used to translate American fast-food advertisements into Arabic cause the Arabic translations to be culturally bound to their originals, the aim of the present study is to ...

In South Africa there is no legislation defining the role of court interpreters. This has resulted in legal officials (magistrates and judges) forming their own opinions as to what the role of court interpreters is. As ...